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air-drop

air-drop is the alternative spelling of airdrop.

Meaning of airdrop

Noun

airdrop (plural airdrops)

  1. The act of delivering goods, equipment, or personnel by dropping them from an aircraft in flight.
  2. The distribution of free tokens to help bootstrap a new cryptocurrency.
    • But Facebook is also likely to carry out what’s known in cryptocurrency circles as an “air drop”, handing out small amounts of currency for free in an effort to kickstart the ecosystem.[2019 June 18, Kari Paul, “What is Libra? All you need to know about Facebook's new cryptocurrency”, in The Guardian

See all 6 meanings of airdrop

Forms of air-drop

Noun
pluralair-drops
Verb
third-person singular presentair-drops
present participleair-dropping
past participleair-dropped
pastair-dropped

Questions about air-drop

What is air-drop the alternative spelling of?
Air-drop is the alternative spelling of airdrop.

Words near air-drop in the dictionary

  1. air-cushion vehicles
  2. air-defence
  3. air-defense
  4. air-dried
  5. air-dries
  6. air-drop
  7. air-dropped
  8. air-dropping
  9. air-drops
  10. air-drumming
  11. air-dry

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Adapted from Wiktionary: air-drop (page history and authors); airdrop (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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